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Decalogue V
Dekalog, pięć
1989 · Film · 57 min
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind.
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Kieslowski's "thou shall not kill" and "thou shall have no other god" from Decalogue remain some of the most haunting films I've seen.
All 10 pieces of Decalog (Dekalog) are worth watching. Kieslowski is one of the greatest film directors of all time.
The first episode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decalogue_I) is the most poignant of all I think. If you are, like me, teaching your young child how to program this will be both very interesting and heart wrenching to watch. Note that the father's name is Krzysztof, which may refer to either Kieslowski or to Krzysztof Piesiewicz with whom Kieslowski collaborated on the script or both, perhaps hinting that this may be one of the more personal episodes (Kieslowski's father was an engineer, too).